Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 11

His wife had a little pride in those days; she seldom condescended to glance at the lamp, excepting when she passed by in the evening, never in the daytime.

Who acts: wife, family · What happens: have, condescend, glance, except, pass · To what, where: little pride, family, daytime

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pride	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pride	amod
6	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 condescended	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 condescended	nsubj:pass
12	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	13 condescended	advmod
13	condescended	condescend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 glance	mark
15	glance	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 condescended	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 lamp	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lamp	det
18	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glance	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 excepting	punct
20	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 glance	advcl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 passed	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 excepting	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 evening	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 evening	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evening	det
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 daytime	punct
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 daytime	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 daytime	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 daytime	det
32	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	watchman's wife	a little pride		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient
2	condescend	participle · passive		family			seldom property	tree rules
3	glance	to-infinitive					at the lamp	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lamp=Theme
4	except	gerund						tree rules
5	pass	past	family		the daytime	evening		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in daytime=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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